Russia is Burning Yang Lian To a Fault

To a Fault

Cut off from his people

the transcendent states that arise from the simple contemplation of the earth

like a country

however small – that ‘To feel the evening coming up / and to stream one way or another’ can be the difference between this life and that

Russia is Burning Yang Lian To a FaultThe Second World War occupies a special place in Russian memory. Between the German invasion in June 1941 and the liberation of Berlin in May 1945, over 26 million Soviet civilians, servicemen and women were killed fighting the Nazis. The war also occupies a special place in the history of Russian poetry. For Anna Akhmatova the Red Army was defending the Russian language as well as Russian soil (we will defend you, Russian speech). Poems written by